DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – Funk music artists with ties to Dayton have connections to thousands of songs, leaving behind a proud history of funk music in the city. Dayton is known as the funk capital of ...

Alcohol is a killer vice, and Robert Jay knows it. When the Detroit funk legend wrote the infectious “Alcohol” in 1969, he was hungover and mad as hell. Yet Jay’s blues-funked “Alcohol” became one of ...

Warning: Don’t click on the embedded video above unless you want to have this song stuck in your head for days. “Karma Chameleon” by Culture Club is, in my opinion, the catchiest earworm song of the ...

A funk band from the South Bronx, ESG recorded for 99 Records and Factory back in the early 1980s. Their stripped-down but deeply polyrhythmic tracks have always crossed over between white and black ...

For Black History Month, we're going through the decades and discussing artists who shaped popular music. How Prince's 'Purple Rain' brought R&B and funk to the masses in the 1980s In the 1980s, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – One doesn’t have to live in Dayton for long to learn that there’s funk within the city’s roots. Between the ...